Research+Topics




 * **MODERN LIVING ** || * **Urbanization**: Building the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the GWashington Bridge
 * **Cars & Highways**: Different makes & models, new highway systems like the Hutchison River Parkway; Henry Ford bio
 * **Airplanes**: Different makes & models; bios of Lindbergh or Earhardt
 * **Fads & Crazes ** ||
 * **NEW WOMAN** || * **Fashions **
 * **Hair styles & make-up **
 * **New Careers **
 * **Bios**: Zelda Fitzgerald; Clara Bow; Margaret Mead; Amelia Earhardt; Texas Guinan; Babe Didrikson Zaharis ||
 * **PROHIBITION ** || * **Bootlegging**
 * **Famous Speakeasies**: The Cotton Club (NY); Twenty-One (NY); Room 21 (Chicago); Green Mill (Chicago)
 * **Gangsters:** Al Capone; Lucky Luciano; Bugs Moran; Dutch Schultz
 * **G-Men**: J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI; Elliott Ness & the Untouchables
 * **St. Valentine's Day Massacre ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">RESISTING CHANGE ** || * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The KKK during the 1920's **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Scopes "Monkey" Trial **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sacco & Vanzetti Crime & Trial **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Back to Africa Movement ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">SPORTS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ** || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Sports:** Baseball teams of the 1920's; the Negro Leagues;Babe Ruth bio; Jack Dempsey bio; Babe Didrikson Zaharis bio
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Radio:** improvements to the invention; popular shows and stars
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Jazz:** Overview of history & style; Louis Armstrong bio; Duke Elligton bio; Josephine Baker bio; The Cotton Club
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Harlem Renaissance **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Movies:** Overview of the rise of the movie studios; blockbuster movies of the 1920's; bios of individual movie stars of the 1920's ||